Modi Cabinet reshuffle: As it happened

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday expanded his council of ministers by elevating Minister of State for Environment Prakash Javadekar in the cabinet and also inducted 19 new Ministers of State.

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Anupriya patel with her husband at her home before she going to president hose for taking oath. BJP is hoping to attract Other Backward Castes (OBC) votes by inducting Apna Dal MP from Mirzapur Anupriya Patel into the Modi cabinet. (Source: Express photo by Anil Sharma)

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Today's exercise underlines BJP's attempts at wooing
dalits and OBCs, whose votes would be crucial to its fortunes
in key states like UP and Gujarat. (Source: Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)

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S S Ahluwalia and Arun Jaitley greet each other during the cabinet reshuffle. BJP leader S S Ahluwaliawho joined the Council of
Ministers, said his priority will be to bring development for
the people. (Source: Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)

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Prakash Javadekar, M J Akbar and other ministers during the cabinet reshuffle. Minister of State for Environment Prakash Javadekar was promoted to the Cabinet rank in the latest reshuffle of the Narendra Modi government. (Source: Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)

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19 MPs joined the government in the second expansion and
reshuffle by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in little over two
years since he took over in May 2014 which saw a number a
dalit and OBC leaders being given ministerial positions. (Source: Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)